Class diagram: how to write down classes that belong to a library?

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Published on 2010-05-25T10:13:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 14:01 UTC
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I am reverse engineering some Java code into a class diagram. Now I'm wondering how to model classes that are from a library that I didn't design. If I'm writing them down as classes, I should maybe also know what interfaces they implement, etc, and put that in the diagram. How far do I go with this? Is it better to write them down as attributes of my own classes?

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